The Current Price For Upstart Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: UPST): And Is It Worth Investing In?

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During the last session, Upstart Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UPST)’s traded shares were 4.0 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.31. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $52.87, reflecting an intraday loss of -3.87% or -$2.13. The 52-week high for the UPST share is $96.43, that puts it down -82.39 from that peak though still a striking 61.04% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $20.60. The company’s market capitalization is $4.95B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 4.73 million shares, and the average trade volume was 5.73 million shares over the past three months.

Upstart Holdings Inc (UPST) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.76. UPST has a Sell rating from 4 analyst(s) out of 12 analysts who have looked at this stock. 6 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 2 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.17.

Upstart Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UPST) trade information

Upstart Holdings Inc (UPST) registered a -3.87% downside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -3.87% in intraday trading to $52.87, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 3.67%, and it has moved by -20.98% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 103.35%. The short interest in Upstart Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UPST) is 18.28 million shares and it means that shorts have 3.04 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $65, which implies an increase of 18.66% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $45 and $85 respectively. As a result, UPST is trading at a discount of -60.77% off the target high and 14.89% off the low.

Upstart Holdings Inc (UPST) estimates and forecasts

In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 58.27% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 201.1M as predicted by 11 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 11 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 225.41M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 127.79M and 127.63M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 57.36% and then jump by 76.61% in the coming quarter.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -195.32%. While earnings are projected to return 776.62% in 2025.

UPST Dividends

Upstart Holdings Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Feb-10. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

Upstart Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UPST)’s Major holders

Upstart Holdings Inc insiders own 12.44% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 64.16%, with the float percentage being 73.28%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 509.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 7.3 million shares (or 8.3871% of all shares), a total value of $172.19 million in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 5.66 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 6.405% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $133.62 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Upstart Holdings Inc (UPST) shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and iShares Russell 2000 ETF . Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 2.44 shares. This amounts to just over 2.61 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $129.2 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 2.14, or about 2.28% of the stock, which is worth about $112.93 million.